PORTFOLIO
- Employee Appreciation: invitations, yearbook, awards
- Project Manager: gantt chart, flowchart
- Meeting Organizer: presentation
- Financial Analyst: gross profit, scrap $ analysis
HIGHLIGHTS
- Over four years of management experience.
- Effective communicator, both verbally and written.
- Volunteered with Junior League of Erie on Kids in the Kitchen, PANA project, Flat Headed Baby Project, Cinderella’s Closet, Bon Ton’s Care to Share Days, Parrot Head Dance, Saturdays at the Library, Junior’s Last Laugh Nights, and various fundraising activities throughout the year.
- Team captain and fundraiser for Crohn’s Colitis Foundation of America’s Got Guts and Take Steps annual walks.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(at Heatron, Inc.)
- Supervised staff of 3, involving training, work flow, quality control, conflict resolution, and review processes.
- Directed the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of shipping, receiving, and quality work stations.
- Developed procedures for receiving and inspecting material, leading to increased throughput and more accurate inventory items for the entire corporation.
- Managed inventory reconciliation for $1.4 million of product.
- Analyzed discrpencies in accounts payable with respect to receipts made at our plant location and accounts receivable with respect to sales at our plant location.
- Developed reporting to summarize ledger using Crystal Reports for weekly scorecard meetings.
- Present cost of sales and gross margin numbers weekly to production staff.
- Reviewed revenue, cost of goods, and gross profit to determine necessary actions for improvement in weekly progress and evaluation meeting.
DEVELOPMENT / MOTIVATION
- Assisted customers in identifying their quality system needs.
- Wrote persuasive documents, frequently influencing decision makers.
- Involved personnel in goal sharing, resulting in increased productivity.
WORK HISTORY
2004-Present, Quality Manager, Heatron, Inc., Erie, PA
2002-2004, Senior Quality Engineer, AVX Corp., Myrtle Beach, SC
1999-2002, Quality Manager, Spectrum Control, New Orleans, LA
1998-1999, Ceramic Engineer, Washington Mills, Lake Wales, FL
EDUCATION
B.S., Ceramic Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 5/1998
SEMINARS/COURSES ATTENDED
Proposal Writing Basics, Foundation Center, 7/2008
Membership Development, Junior Leagues’ Great Lakes Regional Conference,5/2008
Corporate Solicitation Bootcamp, Junior Leagues’ Great Lakes Regional Conference, 5/2008
Publisher Basic, The Learning Lab, 4/2008
Managing Conflict in the Workplace and the Boardroom, The Nonprofit Partnership, 2/2008
Training Program, Erie Ambassadors, 12/2007
Back to Basics Workshop, Porcelain Enamel Institute, 6/2007
AFFILIATIONS
Junior League of Erie
Erie Ambassadors
Crohn’s Colitis Foundation of America
American Society of Quality Senior Member
Registered EIT, SC Board of Registration Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
SKILLS
Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, AS400/MVS, SAS, DOS, Pivotal Relationship, MS OUTLOOK, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, MS PUBLISHER, MS ACCESS, MS PROJECT, MS POWERPOINT, MS GROOVE, LASI, Visual Enterprise VM/VQ/CRM, Crystal Reports